Electrical/Electronics App & Software

What is Raspberry Pi? Using Raspberry Pi to control LEDs (Simple Electronic Project) What is Raspberry Pi? Raspberry Pi is a small credit card sized microcomputer consisting of inbuilt features like SD card slot, wireless LAN and Bluetooth and 1.2GHZ ARM processor etc (More components details are given below). It can be used by enthusiasts to build small practical projects. …

ZigBee Technology its Design, Architecture and Applications Introduction to ZigBee Wireless Networking Technology ZigBee is a IEEE 802.15.4 based, low power, low data rate supporting wireless networking standard, which is basically used for two-way communication between sensors and control system. It is a short-range communication standard like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, covering range of 10 to 100 meters. The difference being …

Introduction to LabVIEW and Basic LabVIEW Based Electrical Projects As a proven useful tool for prototyping, the LabVIEW graphical development platform delivers a numerous solutions to a wide variety of applications such as instrumentation control, embedded monitoring and control systems, data acquiring and processing, automation test and validation systems, etc. LabVIEW includes hundreds prewritten libraries which help to create flexible …

12+ Top and Highly Recommended iOS Apps for Electrical Engineers / Students Introduction to iOS Apps for Electrical & Electronics Engineers & Students: The fact can not be denied that smartphones (and obviously their apps) make our life so easy. Now, how can we Electrical engineers & students live without useful electrical and electronics apps which is specially designed for …

Advance Voltage Drop Calculator and Voltage Drop Formula. According to the NEC (National Electric Code) [210.19 A (1)] FPN number 4 and [215.2 A (3)] FPN number 2, the allowable Voltage drop for feeders is 3% and the acceptable voltage drop for final sub circuit and branch circuit is 5% for proper and efficient operation. For example, if the Supply …

Arduino Programming: What is Arduino and How to Program it? What is Arduino? An Arduino is an open source hardware platform with built in programming support. No additional hardware or software (e.g. Hex burner) is required to transfer your programs (i.e. hex file) to the Arduin0. There are all the necessary peripherals attached for the basic operation. It is based …

Arduino PWM Programming and its functions in Arduino What is PWM? PWM stands for “Pulse Width Modulation”. This technique is widely used in almost all devices in which voltage variation is required. In PWM, steady DC Voltage is converted into square wave with varying pulse width and the ratio of the total time period (T) of the wave to the …

Arduino Serial: Serial Communication by Arduino Background of Serial Communication: When microcontroller or microprocessor need to communicate with the outer world, then they provide data in the form of 8 bits packets, so if one system needs to communicate with the other one, then total 8 wires cable is used and it is not a always a practical solution because …

PCB Designing: How To Design a PCB (Step by Step & Pictorial Views with Example PCB of LED Flasher Circuit) What is PCB “Printed Circuit Board” ? PCB stands for “Printed circuit board”. On this board all the components are soldered and interlinked by the copper tracks. The PCB can be a single layer and can go up to many …

How to Program PIC18 Microcontroller in C. Step by Step Tutorial (Pictorial Views) How to Program a microcontroller Microcontroller programming means coding of a microcontroller for different purposes in a special software. There are lots of software in which we can write different codes for microcontroller and IC Chips. Below, we will discuss that how to program a microcontroller. In …